#CHI2026 Today 2:15pm📍Green Zone #8!
Our poster "Access Is Not Enough: Toward Developmental Flourishing."
Two versions: one visual, one OCR-optimized. If BLV folks have a different process, the poster should too.
Come debate: What is the purpose of assistive technology, and how?
In “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”, Italo Calvino distilled six literary virtues he felt should endure regardless of how the world changed.
As we enter an age of automated evaluation & production of science, what are the parallel epstemic virtues we should try to preserve? We want your input! 🧵
If you're a faculty, research scientist, postdoc, or senior PhD in any area of science, select your top 6 virtues at this link:
shorturl.at/bV2lF
You can also tell us if you think we missed any.
We want broad participation, so pls RT! 🙏
In collab w/@devezer.bsky.social @statmodeling.bsky.social
Stop by, we'd love to hear what you think:
📍Green Zone, #8
🕐 Thursday, April 16, 2:15pm
Darren Gergle will be there in person. I am joining the conversation via video, audio, and text.
Paper preprint is linked on my website: www.yyteng.com/pub.html
(5/5)
Embodiment as Communication, Evolving-through-use System. Each has concrete implications for how we design interactions, structure sensory loops, and architect adaptive systems.
We raise more questions than we answer. We're hoping for a real conversation about where the field orients next. (4/5)
that are valuable and authentic to the individuals.
Access and flourishing can co-occur. The field needs both orientations, and right now we are overlooking one.
The new frame demands paradigm shifts in process and system design. We distill 3 shifts: Interface as Cognitive Representation, (3/5)
something fundamental: the process.
“Developmental flourishing” positions assistive technologies not as end goals, but as means for exploratory, creative, and sensemaking processes that give activities their depth and personal significance. Technologies should expand capabilities (2/5)
front page of the paper titled "Access Is Not Enough: Toward Developmental Flourishing" by Yuanyang (YY) Teng and Darren Gergle, Northwestern University
"Access Is Not Enough", we need a new frame. At #CHI2026, we share an opinion paper at Thursday’s poster session that reorients assistive technology toward “Developmental Flourishing.” The “access” frame has driven important advances, but measuring success by outcome equivalence overlooks (1/5)